Spaceship = object or team?

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#1  Edited By Deadknight

I was planning to make a page for the spaceship known as "The Lost Light" from IDW's Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye series. I'm just a little unsure on whether to make a page for the ship itself (object) and another page for the crew (team), or to simply list it as a team page so that I can add crew members and also images of the ship itself to the team gallery. The latter option seems the better choice in my opinion, but I just thought I should get some input first

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#2  Edited By pikahyper  Moderator

@Deadknight: a space ship is an object so it should be a separate object page for the ship and a team page for the team.

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#3  Edited By JediXMan  Moderator

@pikahyper:

On a similar topic: the Death Star should be an object, not a location?

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#4  Edited By pikahyper  Moderator

@JediXMan: eh that is up for debate, something that size should probably be a location.

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#5  Edited By JediXMan  Moderator

@pikahyper said:

@JediXMan: eh that is up for debate, something that size should probably be a location.

It can move. I mean, we have Mogo as a character and not a location. Plus, to quote a famous movie:

"That's no moon; it's a space station."

A space station - a mobile battlestation, as it is classified - would fit better as an object.

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#6  Edited By pikahyper  Moderator

@JediXMan: Mogo is alive, as for the rest wrong night to be discussing it.

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#7  Edited By RazzaTazz

@JediXMan: @pikahyper: I generally put such things as objects but tag them under the location rules. I actually covered this in the Troubleshooter. The size of the Death Star is an issue though, especially that we have the Empire State Building designated as a place though it is much smaller than a death star

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#8  Edited By JediXMan  Moderator

@RazzaTazz:

The Empire State Building doesn't move. The Death Star is essentially a space ship. It moves through Hyperspace like anything else.

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#9  Edited By RazzaTazz

@JediXMan: True, for instance the USS Flag or the Danger yacht are both objects in the wiki, and they move. I tag them like locations though.

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#10  Edited By pikahyper  Moderator

I'm not sure why but I still lean towards it being a location since it is the setting for so many stories

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#11  Edited By RazzaTazz

On the specific question of the death star, I say location as well.

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So is it rule of thumb that any artificial structure should be under objects?

Kind of confusing when Deep Space Nine is a location but Babylon 5 is an object.

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#13 pikahyper  Moderator

@_gaff_: not really, what it boils down to is if it is something that is made by man, aliens, whatever and it is primarily a vehicle then it should be an object so spaceships fall into this category and if it is something that is generally stationary or of such a large size that it is the equivalent of a city or so then it should be a location even if it can technically move like a space-station like DS9 or the Death Star, Babylon 5 specifically looks to be a vehicle primarily so it is an object whereas DS9 does not typically move so it is a location that has its own community.